Start working, your time is running out: Rahul to Modi

Karatagi (Karnataka) : Lashing out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday asked him to stop giving speeches on the past and start working, saying he did not have much time before completing his term.

“You will have to tell the country during the elections what you did in the last five years. It is going to be five years and you have not even opened your account,” he told Modi, making him the focal point of his attack in a series of roadside and public meetings.

On the second day of his ongoing “Janashirvada Yatra” in northern parts of the state in the poll-bound Karnataka, he said Modi was delving into the past to attack the Congress rather than accounting for his performance.

Gandhi said “BJP failed to create jobs, bring back black money and brought down the economy, but all Modi talks about is Congress is this, Congress is that.”

“Modi ji stop giving speeches and start working, because you don’t have much time.

Invoking the pithy saying “work is worship” of Karnataka’s 12th century social reformer and philosopher, Basavanna, Gandhi said, “Modi ji you keep taking Basavanna’s name, but you don’t work. You keep talking, but you don’t work. Even if you talk, you only talk about the past.”     Claiming that the Congress “does what it says”, Gandhi said his party always worked for the future, while Modi drove the vehicle looking at the rearview mirror.

“That’s the reason your vehicle falls into ditch or faces accident… You only keep thinking about the past and then do something like demonetisation which created loss for crores of people and implement GST ‘Gabbar Singh Tax’,” he charged.

He also claimed that the Modi government was “slowly” waiving the loans of businessmen who had debt of around Rs 10 lakh crore but refused to write off farmers debt.

Gandhi stepped up his attack on the BJP over the issue of corruption saying, “in the last five years there was not even a single scam” under Congress’s Siddaramaiah government while the BJP had broken “world records” in graft in Karnataka.

Congress chief shown black flags

Sindhnur: In what can be seen as a slight hitch in Congress’ electoral campaign in Karnataka, party’s President Rahul Gandhi was shown black flags on his arrival at Sindhnur, on Sunday.

As the party’s bus arrived, a large gathering of supporters was present to receive Gandhi. However, there was also another group of people carrying black flags that went up to stand right in front of the bus, and after being herded out by security, began to throw the flags at the bus.

BJP govt broke world record in graft, says RaGa

Koppal: Stepping up his attack on the BJP over the issue of corruption, Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said while the Congress’s Siddaramaiah government had a scam- free rule, the BJP had broken “world records” in graft in Karnataka.

The Congress president, continuing with the first leg of his poll campaign in north Karnataka for the second day, said when the BJP was in power in the state, there were “scams one after the other”.

“In the last five years there was not even a single scam, and during their (BJP) time there were scams one after the other, from mining to what not, different scams,” he said.

At roadside meetings in Koppal district during his ongoing ‘Janashirvad Yatra’ here ahead of Assembly polls in the state, Gandhi said, “Elections are coming, support the Congress party and Siddaramaiah. Once again bring our government here so that we can together work for you.”

The Congress president, who is travelling by a special bus along with other state leaders, received an enthusiastic response from party workers and people who had gathered in large numbers on both sides of the road at different places.